I am most of the way through a response now... should be able to mail it within an hour or so if I'm not interrupted again; later today in any event. john
--On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 07:52 -0600 Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > This issue has greater urgency now because > draft-ietf-precis-nickname is now in AUTH48... > > On 10/26/15 3:51 PM, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote: > >> After all that, I have 3 questions: >> >> (1) Is my proposed text enough of a clarification that we >> should make that change before the nickname I-D is published >> as an RFC? > > I think so. > >> (2) Should we modify draft-ietf-precis-nickname so that case >> folding is applied only as part of comparison and not as part >> of enforcement? If so, should we make that change before this >> document is published as an RFC? > > Although it seems to be the case that Unicode case folding is > primarily designed for the purpose of matching (i.e., > comparison), I have a concern that applying the PRECIS case > mapping rule after applying the normalization and > directionality rules might have unintended consequences that > we haven't had a chance to consider yet. The PRECIS framework > expresses a preference (actually a hard requirement) for > applying the rules in a particular order. We made a late > change to the username profiles (RFC 7613), such that width > mapping is applied first (in order to accommodate fullwidth > and halfwidth characters in certain East Asian scripts). > Making a late change to the nickname profile also concerns me, > even though both of these late changes seem reasonable on the > face of it. I will try to find time to think about this > further in the next 24 hours. > >> (3) Should we update RFC 7613 so that case folding is applied >> only as part of comparison and not as part of enforcement? > > That is less urgent so I suggest that we address the nickname > spec first. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
